Jim Henderson escribió:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:59:34 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> 
>> Orchid XP v7 escribió:
>>> One person
>>> remarked that logging in to some web app is still slow as hell. (Gee,
>>> could that be because we have a 2 mbit/sec Internet link shared between
>>> 50 PCs and no web proxy?)
>> Aha, there is your problem. Web app.
>>
>> I'm currently working on linking a web forum into the greatness that
>> NNTP is. Compare performance of Outlook Express on povray newsgroups and
>> a phpBB forum and you'll see a bit of a difference...
>>
>> (no it's not a phpBB forum I'm linking to NNTP; that would be masochism)
> 
> Out of curiosity, which one is it?  vBulletin seems quite good if you 
> haven't looked at it...
> 
> Jim

None of those forums have proper threading. People add their posts to 
threads, they don't reply to other posts. Converting that to a tree like 
it's shown on newsgroups wouldn't work at all. Even if the forum 
software stores what post is a reply of which, most people click "reply 
to this thread" when replying to one of the last few posts, breaking the 
chain anyway.

For example here:
http://community.electricsheep.org/node/102
Posts are indented to show correct nesting. That's easy to get working 
in a newsgroup. But most forums are "flat".

The one I want to link to NNTP is pretty much custom software.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/

Posts show "In response to message ####" so that's kinda better. On my 
forum, I removed the "reply to this thread" link completely, forcing 
users to reply to individual posts, instead of throwing posts in the thread.

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